- Not Many Attendees at Spectra Public Meeting: While the proposal to route a natural gas pipeline extension through Jersey City has drawn criticism from a bevy of politicians and some local residents, turnout was light at Tuesday night’s public informational meeting.
- Council Action: An ordinance to make City Council jobs full-time was removed from [...]
- Elections Move Criticized: City clerk Robert Byrne told the City Council this week that moving municipal elections to November could create chaos inside the voting booth and potentially create the need for two separate ballots at the polls. The elections move, allowed by a state law passed early this year, is supported by Ward [...]
- Full-Time Council? Ward F councilwoman Viola Richardson is introducing an ordinance to make City Council jobs full-time, and another to increase the maximum salary for council members from $22,500 to $90,000 and for council president from $24,500 to $100,000. Both would begin July 1, 2013, and are meeting resistance from the administration.
- Re-introducing Bills: [...]
- Auto Fluids Contract Questioned: A company that donated about $3,000 the the campaigns of City Council members, and another $2,500 to the Hudson County Democratic Organization, has been awarded a contract worth up to $100,000 to provide automotive fluids and lubricants to the Public Works Department. City officials say the contract doesn’t ban [...]
Steve Gold takes a lot of great pictures at City Council meetings that often don’t make our Council Report stories because there just isn’t the space. So we will sometimes bring them to you in a slide show of outtakes. Enjoy.
- At Budget Hearing, Council Hears It From Residents: Last night’s public hearing on the city’s Fiscal Year 2010 budget brought a huge crowd to City Hall. The crowd packed council chambers while speaker after speaker got up to protest the proposed budget, which would result in a property tax hike. Douglas Carlucci has a [...]
Editor’s note: Sometimes we receive traditional letters to the editor rather than comments on stories. We share them every once in a while in “The Mailbag.”
The total disregard for the residents of Jersey City and the “holier-than-thou” mentality is dizzying enough to cause an aneurysm. Before I go on, let me provide the definition of [...]
After last week’s snowpocalypse canceled a City Council meeting for the first time since 1996, a special meeting was arranged for Wednesday evening to handle time-sensitive business that needed to be addressed before the next regularly scheduled meeting on Feb. 24. The thin agenda made for the shortest council meeting in recent memory, clocking in at a mere 29 minutes. There was no public hearing portion of the meeting, and only about 15 community members were in attendance.
The city ended up canceling last week’s scheduled City Council meeting in the midst of Wednesday’s snowstorm, so a special council meeting has been scheduled this week to consider and vote on nearly 30 resolutions and enter some communications officially into the record.
None of the ordinances that were to be considered — including ones [...]
As part of a flurry of cost-cutting and open-government bills to be introduced by Ward E councilman Steven Fulop for a first reading at the next City Council meeting, city-owned cable station JC1TV would be required to televise city council meetings.
The proposed ordinance would mandate that JC1TV broadcast all city council meetings “gavel to gavel” [...]
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